And Today's Mystery Weather Is …

Loyal readers will know that we haven't exactly had much winter weather here in Western NY this year. Indeed, we've only had a few light snowfalls that never lasted long. But last night around 11:40PM ghostwriter took a picture of our garden Buddha (below.) She was very happy and imagined there would be a nice accumulation for us to run around the next morning.

We did have some snow on the ground early this morning.

Within an hour it was completely melted!

But then, at precisely 12:15 PM we looked out and saw this:

Ghostwriter ran right outside and started taking pictures!

We thought it was hail at first.

But upon closer inspection we discovered it was something called graupel. This is when snowflakes fall through very cold clouds and become coated with ice or rime.

Oh, and in case you're wondering about the opossum that our North Carolina affiliate Angus B. Terrier found in his yard yesterday. Apparently Angus thought it was dead because it smelled awful. He proceeded to to try to acquire the scent on his own fur. His humans caught him, though and promptly gave him a bath! The animal control people came and took the opossum away.

End of story.

Sorry Angus!

We'll keep you posted on our fickle weather. If anything else happens, you'll hear it first on The Daily Bone. See you soon!

12 comments:

Weird weather! We have an inversion right now (a high is keeping the polluted air trapped near the ground and not allowing it to warm up) BUTT at our house (so far) we are above the inversion. So as long as we stay home it is nicer and sunny. BUTT as soon as we look at the valley it looks pretty bad.

Crikey ..... how miserable does Angus look?? He looks a bit like that opossom thing himself, aye?? Graupel .... how come I've never heard of graupel? Sounds like something you'd eat. Still NO SNOW?? Crikey ..... you blokes must be spittin' chips. We're having some weather issues here too. We went to the beach this morning. It POURED. We got VERY wet. I ran away and hid under a tree. Mum and Dad got soaked. Mum had to take her clothes off to get in the car she was soooooooooooo wet. Lucky we had a towel, aye?? This rain is unusual. It only rains at night here!!

You got the polystyrene snow, we often get that I do wish we'd get some PROPER snow to play in.I is glad to hear that Mr Opossum is being well look after…poor Angus, he was only being friendly and all he got fur his kindness was a BAFF!!!!Loves and licky kissesPrincess Leah xxx

Poor angus he looks just like our angus IF he would do something like that, which he would...our weather for Iowa is so weird also..this week a little snow alot of wind and cold....stay warm stella rose

We get those sometimes - we just call them snow pellets and did not know there was an official name for them. We are supposed to warm up to the 40's so all our snow will turn to muck - ughhugsMr Bailey, Hazel & Mabel

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My name is Chester L. W. Spaniel, registered cocker spaniel and chairman of the Squeaky Party. I write The Daily Bone almost every day; well, sometimes every week, but I keep at it. I get my inspiration from the humans I live with and the stuff they watch on TV. I believe squeaky toys will make the world a better place, and everybody should have a squeaky toy.